Sunday, 12 October 2008

First impressions of the Intermediate Care Centre

They put Jo in the chair at 8:30 this morning and she didn't get out until 19:30, at my insistence. Eleven hours had proven to be too long and her ankle was quite swollen. It did seem to have done her hemispatial neglect some good as she was spontaneously looking to the left, whereas yesterday she had to be prompted and even then often failed to turn her head fully to the left. The ICC does seem a better environment for recovery of functions as they do seem more focused on helping you to help yourself. The Neurological rehabilitation ward at the local hospital just encouraged dependency on the nurses, despite their stated aims to the contrary.

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.